David Burdeny’s Mercators Projection: A Tabular Iceberg in the Weddell Sea
Pale sky, a sheer white wall of ice, silvery water and a block of deep shadow: Canadian photographer David Burdeny’s Mercators Projection, ...
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Antarctica: Ice, Wildlife & Polar Landscapes
Discover the ice, wildlife and vast polar landscapes of Antarctica through stories and photography. Explore the frozen continent, then continue into the archive's glacier, iceberg and wildlife collections.
Steve Mandel’s Split-Level Iceberg Photos: Antarctica Above and Below
Steve Mandel's split-level photographs show an Antarctic iceberg twice in one frame: the snowy, sunlit ice above the sea and the vast b...
If All the Ice Melted: Sea-Level Rise Maps and the Science Behind Them
Earth still holds more than five million cubic miles of ice. If every bit of it on land melted, the oceans would climb by roughly 65 to 70 ...
Mike Libecki and Daughter Lilliana in Antarctica: An Education
When Mike Libecki visited his daughter's kindergarten class in 2008, five-year-old Lilliana told him she would love to see penguins. Six...
Ross Sea Party Negatives: 22 Lost Antarctic Photos Found at Cape Evans
In a corner of Herbert Ponting’s old darkroom at Captain Scott’s hut on Cape Evans, Ross Island, conservators from New Zealand’s Antarctic ...
Antarctica Drone Film by Kalle Ljung: Sailing from Ushuaia to the Melchiors
Kalle Ljung, a Swedish creative director, sailed to Antarctica with his 73-year-old father over the turn of 2014 and 2015, and took a small...
AirPano’s Antarctica Photos: Penguins, Icebergs and the Peninsula Islands
Penguins pairing up on the rocks, seals dozing on a stony beach, a ship dwarfed by a wall of ice: AirPano’s Antarctic collection shows the ...
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18 Frozen Lakes, Ponds and Seas: Baikal, Abraham Lake and Frost Flowers
When water freezes, it can record its own story: methane bubbles stacked like coins under the surface, turquoise slabs pushed up by the win...
Raised Footprints in Snow: How Wind Makes Footprints Stand Up
Footprints in snow are supposed to sink. The ones in these photographs stand up instead, like rows of little white pedestals marching acros...
McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: Mount Erebus, Wildlife and Herzog’s Film
A pale sheet of ice stretches towards dark volcanic mountains, and low polar light warms the edge of the scene. McMurdo Sound, a bay of the ...
Antarctic Icebergs Photographed by Martin Bailey: Ice Palaces and Arches
Martin Bailey photographs icebergs the way an architect looks at buildings. In his series of polar ice, shared through the Offset image lib...
Elephant Seal Pup Meets Photographer Mary Marshall: Video and Seal Facts
Mary Marshall sat down on the beach to photograph a young elephant seal. The pup had other ideas: it shuffled over to her and tried to get a...
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat: The 2014 NASA Study and Thwaites Today
In May 2014, NASA announced that a group of fast-moving glaciers in West Antarctica had passed the point of no return. A team led by glacio...
Paul Nicklen and the Leopard Seal That Fed Him Penguins in Antarctica
In 2006, on assignment for National Geographic off the Antarctic Peninsula, Canadian photographer Paul Nicklen slipped into the water besid...
Striped Icebergs: Why Antarctic Ice Shows Blue, Green and Brown Bands
Most icebergs are white, some glow blue, and a few in the Southern Ocean carry bold stripes of blue, green, brown or black. In 2008 the Nor...
Blood Falls, Antarctica: Why Taylor Glacier Bleeds Red Brine
At the snout of Taylor Glacier in East Antarctica, a rusty red stain spills down the white ice onto a frozen lake. Blood Falls looks like a...
Gentoo Penguins at Neko Harbour: Curious Birds Take Over a Glacier Photo
The Reddit user land_of_ice was setting up a shot of a glacier at Neko Harbour, on the Antarctic Peninsula, when a group of gentoo penguins...
Antarctica Condition 1 Weather: Opening a Door at Scott Base
Christine Powell walks through the corridors of Scott Base, New Zealand’s research station in Antarctica, reaches an outside door and pushe...
Coldest Temperature on Earth: Vostok’s −89.2°C and −98°C Antarctic Hollows
The coldest temperature ever measured by a weather station on Earth is −89.2°C (−128.6°F), recorded at Russia's Vostok Station in Antar...
Charlie and the Seal: RTÉ’s Charlie Bird Meets a Young Antarctic Seal
Irish broadcaster Charlie Bird went to Antarctica to tell the story of a polar explorer, and came home with a delightful wildlife clip, lat...